Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow